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Ed Coleman first won a seat on the Indianapolis city council in 2007 as a Republican, capturing one of four at-large positions. He jumped ship and joined the Libertarian Party in early 2009 and now, instead of trying to get re-elected city-wide, he is challenging incumbent Republican councilman Jack Sandlin in the District 24 race. The Libertarian National Committee pumped $50,000 of party money into supporting Coleman’s bid, and he’s been using some of it to blanket television ads over his district.
Unfortunately, today the Indianapolis Star released their endorsement for the city council race featuring Coleman, and the daily newspaper has decided to back Republican Sanlin. There is no Democrat in this race.
The Star‘s reason for backing the Republican seems to be primarily because of demeanor. “Sandlin is likely to be a more effective representative on the council than Coleman because of his willingness to listen to and work with others,” the paper’s editorial board notes. “Coleman also is prone to sweeping statements that strain credibility. In an interview with the Editorial Board, for instance, Coleman claimed that he was working on a plan to cut $250 million from the city and county budgets. But he was unable to provide specifics.”
The paper’s support for the Republican incumbent is not that surprising, they largely ignored every other Libertarian candidate in the more than two dozen other races on the city’s November ballot. In fact, the editorial board rarely mentioned anything beyond the Libertarian candidate’s name and that fact that they had qualified for the ballot.
It’s unclear how any of these races are unfolding as no public polling exists, but third party activists and Libertarians in particular are sure to be watching next Tuesday.
They will be watching with – again – sadness. Mike Pence’s gubernatorial race is generating so much fanfare on the municipal level that Republicans aren’t going to worry about a “traitor.” TV ads aren’t going to get Coleman elected. The ground game, if there is any, will.
It’s all about the ground game, I agree. Having a big bank balance and a flashy video or two doesn’t win a race like this. I’m afraid he’s going to poll somewhere in the 30’s…. although I hope I’m wrong.
Michael Badnarik’s campaign for Congress should serve them well as a good example of what not to do.
Below, it was during flyer/executive that I got my place (see dates) and a job entirely and completely appropriate.Motown said cool out of Romney, somwhere the heck thereabouts and published, and Italiano 6 units +/- said “good job” MB on our MAIN MAN, Giuseppi Garribaldi (at NYC, 23rd street, art deco, +). Lincoln would have done anything to keep General Garribaldi, but he was off, Italia 150 at 1861. “I caught it !!,” Debra, in office/50. Just like we all do it otherwise, the Silversteins: “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Columbia the Gem of the Sea .. –” ou, La Mer, Barbara, c’est La Romance.
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AN ETUDE
A wailing tenor pealed out of Little Rock. Blues and modern, some hippie sh_t. Some cr_p like ‘we are all in this together,’ or sacrifice for the future while I party with Designing Women in Hollywood. Duh fuselage was golden metal, und duh space ship was super cool. It traveled real nice through the constellations as it made its way to the landing spot, George Washington America.
The passengers were safe, but the rocket was “hot.” George Washington America! Jesus Christ was it nice to have made a successful landing through that hole in the ozone, or whatever; some of the passengers had feared that the landing might be deferred. Oxford, Little Rock, Yale Law, a couple of hicks outside o’ Pine Bluff, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and Unified Communist Vietnam where nobody can vote all watched. Hunter Thompson had been off the charts for several years, Abbie Hoffman winked from his grave (Steal This Book), and the Democratic yuppies chanted their new mantra: “I smoked but I did not inhale.” Elvis had saved $100 million for his daughter in his blue suede shoes, and she was raring to get at it.
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The wailing Little Rock sax had landed. Two dress shirts in a traveling bag and a saxophone full of Motown, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Bolton (who got blown away by Pavarotti in a subsequent duet album) and the American winter cheese dog blues.
“I’ll take a Big Mac (see: “Supersize Me;” a documentary) and four chicken enchiladas,” intoned one Arkansas stalwart. “Make mine caviar, a Rolls, and some fromage bleu,” as another disembarked the Little Rock space ship. “I have been here for years,” said Tipper Gore who suffers from mental illness as several multi-millionaires and some yuppie up-and-comers rushed by her at George Washington Central. Fidel Castro had offered an olive branch, but was swiftly insulted by an omnicompetant bureaucratic chorus.
‘Fidel just doesn’t understand mindless and soulless capitalism (*11/1/11) – an eternity of meritless economic economic aristocracy. Let him be a slave to his revolution, we have partying and screwing and more screwing and historic structural imperialism and greasing our personal fast tracks in combination with our own totalitarian mindsets to delight us. So Batista was a merciless dictator, as were Samoza and much of the American-backed Latin American elite, we have Mammon and power to pray to.’ Sympathy for Haitian refugees also had gone ‘out of vogue,’ as the retinue prepared Supreme Court papers to send them all back. “George Washington America is now ours.” The colonists continued to disembark, a magnificent retinue of the filthy nouveau rich, the slicksters of language, yuppies, a few sober career public servants, some worshippers of the Bay of Pigs plan and Mr. Kennedy’s silk suits, and influence peddlers et al.
Tenor madness ruled, the retinue revolved.
By Mark V. Basile, Master’s equivalent at UC Berkeley and National-Louis University, Skokie,et with Mary Tracz, former.
10/13/09, first completed March, 1993. From Spring Pictures, May, 1993, copyright, all rights reserved.
Contemporary “review:” “Much agree with the skeptical direction you’re taking, which seems to me more and more supported by ongoing events.” 6/3/93. Dr. Noam Chomsky, acclaimed linguist from M.I.T.
“Seriously Concerned.” Danny Davis, Phd. 12/29/10. blogs.suntimes.com/sweet. Writer: Sweet. 12/29. See for consideration. P. 6. (I have found Sweet to be a good writer in the past, no pro however.) Whitewater/Lewinsky/USS Cole. Wikileaks. ‘good hard-working White People; primary.’
11/1. Add. Chicagoana: Classics, turn-of-the century. See:
Jane Addams, Americana World Class. (Old Italiana, sic.) “Hull,” ie.
Thorstein Veblen. FIRED, University of Chicago. Better or worse? Consumption/Leisure Class. Better or worse, still got Plazabo. Phi Beta, et. (above). [Katarina, at 46/45; she’s still in charge at 50/50 (+)]
(Wink, Rocky Marciano – at 2010, c’est vrai?)
1/1/11. Publication. MOTOWN TV on-line,et. (“Gone too Soon,” tag. From Security Council Blues; play – under Lake Erie moon/ Bella Luna.)
When I was in college, I would go from the central bus station in downtown Chicago, that’s directly from home,
stop off in Indy and go to one of a number of places (not unaware of my treasured High School Elkhart Selmer, which John Hall later of Vegas found to his “complete” approval) and just kinda kick back between bus rides, Hoosier to Buckeye. As regards politics, it was a more pleasant time; ‘gave a rat’s a_s’ if I even thought about it. In accord, I have no recollection of anyone whasoever paying atention to me in “Indy” 1973-1975, as I did indeed while I directly was there, enjoy most completely the rolling hills. “Back home in Indiana …” almost forgot, big band-style. ND/73 – National Louis, Sept. 2008 – “Open House,” Departments, November and December 7th.
NLU Opens Doors to Your Future; 122 S.Michigan, Northshore,Lisle campus with Patty Tennison. (Winter)
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